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  Another Suicide

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  there wouldn't have been any good way to hear the news i suppose.

  it's just so strange to recall the conversation yesterday.

  my "still in" parents are with me and my inactive sister having a pleasant conversation.

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  Scully

  (((Billy))) so sorry for your loss.
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  WHAT IS GOING ON?!!

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i feel as though i'm losing it.. firstly, my mom isn't baptized but has been around witnesses for a long time.

  when i was in, she would have problems with the religion.

  we were always at ends with eachother.

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  Scully

  Your mom is compensating. Being a marginal JW was okay for her when you were the zealous one - maybe she felt that she could "ride your coattails" as it were. Now that you've started criticizing the WTS, she probably feels that she has to pick herself up by the bootstraps and set a better example for you.

  Hopefully your mom's renewed zeal will be short lived. The love bombing won't last forever and once it's finished, she'll lose steam again. Perhaps when that happens, you'll be able to connect with her and start helping her develop her critical thinking skills. Ultimately, that's the ticket that will reveal the man behind the curtain.
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  A day in the life of a fading JW

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm five months into my slow fade and it's going so-so.

  my saturday morning was spent on a 3-mile jog and taking the kids to the park, which was great, but i'm still shuddering from the potential alternative.

  at the last meeting, an elderette literally blocked the exit to prevent my escape and said she just "noticed" that we were in the same field service group and would i like to work with her in service on saturday?

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  Scully

  Hi S Eight

  Yes, I figured that out after reading a few more posts from DR's history. Thus my amended post.
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  A day in the life of a fading JW

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm five months into my slow fade and it's going so-so.

  my saturday morning was spent on a 3-mile jog and taking the kids to the park, which was great, but i'm still shuddering from the potential alternative.

  at the last meeting, an elderette literally blocked the exit to prevent my escape and said she just "noticed" that we were in the same field service group and would i like to work with her in service on saturday?

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  Scully

  I highly recommend that you take about 90 minutes to listen to the Secular Parenting podcast on The Thinking Atheist website. There are some extremely useful suggestions by Dale McGowan, who has written books about raising children to have critical thinking skills.

  The podcast aired last week and I thought it was just brilliant.

  http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/podcast/index

  Even if you aren't atheist, the author has some excellent advice for a parent whose beliefs change. He actually made the comment that former JWs face terrible consequences if their change in belief is discovered before they have developed strategies to strike an accord with the believing partner.
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  I just realized....

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just realized i've basically lost the past 30 years of culture... listening to music, being rediscovered and discovering new music... political stuff happening around the world and yes, dammit, all that political stuff is important!!!

  tons of other things that, thanks to the wts's very diligent application of the i part of the bite method (information control) i am only beginning to find out or discover.... .

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  Scully

  I did live in La Belle Province during the FLQ crisis. I was 7 years old. I participated in a Field Service™ demonstration on the platform at the KH showing how to avoid the police by carrying a paper bag with some extra clothes in it, scurrying in to a public restroom and doing the old switcheroo to avoid detection.

  It scared the living crap out of me. I expected the police to bang down our door and throw us all in jail. I cried myself to sleep at night, I was so terrorized.

  F*ck them for robbing children of happy childhoods!
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  Blood Ban Witch Hunt in Progress

  by 5go in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have had my own power of attorney drawn up and sent to my non jw family to void out my old card.

  but now the society is pretty much forcing the issue on everyone with the emergency contact information (witchhunt) gathering drive every year and basically not taking a no for an answer fill it ot or get pulled in back.

  well i am giving them the big fu this time i filling their card out but listng my non jw family on it as the contact and then filling yet another power of attornty to void out their stupid card again..

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  What about if you said "Look, we both know that it is illegal for you to coerce me in any manner regarding my personal medical decisions. Now stop it already. I don't want to give any judge an excuse to invalidate my DPA card, with all these Brothers™ and Sisters™ around who have also been bullied and harassed by the Elders™ into handing over a copy of a personal medical document, who would all testify to that fact. This is one of my fundamental rights and freedoms that you're stomping on, BROTHER. Now go away."
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  Let's Hate on TV

  by Satanus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  perhaps, you're a fan of tv, perhaps, you're not.

  maybe, you like some aspects of it and not others.. my favorite tv hates are 'news', and commercials.

  i always mute the commercials.

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  Scully

  All the tripe shows on TLC (formerly known as The Learning Channel), and particularly all those stupid bridal competition shows, wedding dress drama, ProstaTots (Toddlers in Tiaras) and my biggest hate of all: Honey Boo Boo.

  Just a flash of a Honey Boo Boo commercial makes me feel bad for the brain cells I've killed in the process.
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  What's Da Word On Weed, Mon?

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i come to this site as my one-stop-shopping guide to scandals and controversy within watchtowerland ( much of which is about as real as world of warcraft).

  i'm surprized i haven't read anything about marijuana and 'the truth".. weed is getting legalized all over the place and california, in particular, is loaded with whacked-out witnesses.

  since it can be prescribed as a medical treatment (here and there), i imagine the wts might have to do some doctrinal gymnastics to df folks for using it.

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  Scully

  One of my elderly JW relatives has glaucoma, and the last thing I need to see is him trippin' ballz.
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  Wow did not see that coming.

  by msconcerned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so for a while now i have had some doubts and i have slowly started and had conversations with my wife.

  she has kind of conceded very minor points in our conversations, but what i have been seeing is that she is starting to use her brain.

  im not insulting my wife, but she is starting to think critically.

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  Scully

  That's great!

  Interesting how the WTS just stomps all over Jesus' words. Because they are NOT known for "love among themselves", are they??
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  Put a 'No Junk Mail' sign on your door

  by The Quiet One in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/10308-no-junk-mail/#entry160215 .

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  Scully

  I'm kind of interested in this file: Workbook to Assist with Conscience Matters on Blood but I can't access it as I am not a member.

  Can anyone help me with that?? Send me a PM please.